This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: LTO access time?

"LaCie" and "Rugged" should not be in the same sentence...

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Ham" <scottham.list@gmail.com>
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: LTO access time?

> On Mar 1, 2011, at 4:13 AM, Bouke <bouke@editb.nl> wrote:
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> No, it does not make sense.
> Of course the drives are the bottleneck, and 100 MB/s is close to 3 times
> faster than 35 MB/s.
> (but you'll never make it.)
> The most imporant reason for not making sense is the comparison.
> People use tape backup cause they don't trust drives.
> It aint cheaper (Price per MB is about the same for both LTO5 tape as
> harddisk, and the tapestreamer is pricy.), it aint faster.
> It is about security....
> One of my clients uses harddrives to back up her camera originals, on my
> advice she does everything double.
> And even that turns out not to be good enough, so we're looking into tape
> backup ourselves.
> (with a harddisk backup as well for normal operation.)
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> We're trying to train our clients to accept LTO based backups on file
> based
> shoots. Otherwise, at the end of the job they usually have two sets of
> LaCie rugged drives provided by the production company with their "OCN,"
> one
> that gets shipped to storage and the other in the director's attic
> somewhere. It's a bit scary to see how much confidence production has in
> such crappy drives.
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